Experty‘s Initial Coin Offering (ICO), is composed to raise funds for a “Skype-like voice and video application” which could also take secure payments through the Blockchain.
Experty’s ICO is expected to launch at the end of this month. As first reported by Bleeping Computer, an unknown threat actor sent fraudulent pre-ICO messages to Experty users which had signed up for announcements.
According to zdnet, “these phishing messages, while littered with poor spelling, urged users to invest within 12 hours to receive bonus Experty tokens (EXY) in exchange for their Ethereum“.
The phishing email also included a wallet address which is not linked with the company.
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Reference
http://www.zdnet.com/article/hacker-phishes-experty-ico-steals-150000-in-ethereum
Pedro Tavares is a professional in the field of information security working as an Ethical Hacker/Pentester, Malware Researcher and also a Security Evangelist. He is also a founding member at CSIRT.UBI and Editor-in-Chief of the security computer blog seguranca-informatica.pt.
In recent years he has invested in the field of information security, exploring and analyzing a wide range of topics, such as pentesting (Kali Linux), malware, exploitation, hacking, IoT and security in Active Directory networks. He is also Freelance Writer (Infosec. Resources Institute and Cyber Defense Magazine) and developer of the 0xSI_f33d – a feed that compiles phishing and malware campaigns targeting Portuguese citizens.
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